This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.